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03/17/2016 7:18 a.m. - Updated 03/17/2016 8:11 a.m.
Two mothers with zika give birth to babies without microcephaly GO says SES
Women live in Rio Verde and Santo Antonio do discovered.
In the state, there is no confirmed case of malformation caused by the virus.
Paula Resende
G1 GO
Two women who were diagnosed with zika virus in the first trimester of pregnancy had babies healthy and without microcephaly, according to the State Department of Health (SES) disclosed on Wednesday (16). Mothers living in Santo Antonio do discovered in surrounding the Federal District, and Rio Verde , in southwestern Goias.
The goiano eastern city was the first in the state to have a confirmed case for zika , transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
The victim is a young woman of 22 years.
According to the secretariat, the beginning of the year until March 5, were reported 244 cases of virus zika in Goi?s. Of these, 24 were confirmed and 13 discarded. The other 207 records follow research.
The virus zika is considered one of the causes of microcephaly . However, the disease may also have genetic causes, passed from parent to child, as well as by use of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants during pregnancy, and possible infections that reach the baby during pregnancy.
From March 2015 until the last March 14, it was reported 117 cases of microcephaly in Goi?s. For now, there is no confirmed case of malformation caused by zika in the state. Seven other cases of microcephaly registed in Goi?s were caused congenital infections such as syphilis.
Microcephaly
Microcephaly is a rare condition in which the baby is born with a malformation of the skull. Children can have complications in speech development, motor and even seizure frames.
Visiting Goiania last March 9, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Castro, said the protocol for microcephaly diagnoses changed . Since then, they began to be reported as suspected cases of boys with skull measuring less than 31.9 cm and girls, less than 31.5 cm.
At the beginning of the emergence of microcephaly in Brazil in November, all babies with head circumference less than 33 cm were reported as microcephaly. In December, the ministry changed this parameter, which was increased to 32 cm.
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